How to win a Nobel Prize for IPBES?

17 September 2013 | Video

Imagine 2023, 10 years from now. Has IPBES fundamentally helped to achieve the global biodiversity targets 2020, engaged 100 fellow researchers from Africa, won the Nobel Prize and more? If so, where is the key today, at the beginning of the process, aimed to unlock enhanced science, conservation and policy links?

Watch this video to learn how stakeholder engagement lies at the heart of IPBES success. The video looks at the platform from a future perspective and showcases the achievements of Plafform 10 years from now, provided the meaningful help of its stakeholders has been enabled.

This video was produced by the German Network-Forum for Biodiversity Research (NeFo) during the IPBES pan-European stakeholder consultation in July 2013, Leipzig, Germany. The meeting was jointly organized by NeFo and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research and other national European biodiversity platforms.

About IPBES
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) was established in 2012 as an independent intergovernmental body open to all member countries of the United Nations. The members are committed to building IPBES as the leading intergovernmental body for assessing the state of the planet's biodiversity, its ecosystems and the essential services they provide to society.